2:17 The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they 1 treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.
4:10 So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. 2 The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.
1 tc Heb “the men,” which is absent from one medieval Hebrew
2 tn Heb “and they fled, each to his tents.”
3 tn Heb “on account of his great name.”
4 tn Heb “there was nothing missing to them, from the small even unto the great, and unto sons and daughters, and from loot even unto all which they had taken for themselves.”